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Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Editing Raw files: Other Features

Camera RAW is not just all about making your images lighter, darker, or more colorful. It's packed with an entire editing suite of tools, features, and processes all designed to make the job of editing images that much more streamlined and professional. Features include cropping, histogram adjustments, tonal information, over and underexposure control, as well as a sophisticated Profile Browser for applying some awesome color and mono looks:

Cropping: One of the many advantages of using RAW files is this: once the image has been cropped, the RAW file still retains all the original pixels—meaning it's easy to go back to it and re-crop. Pixels are never discarded. The nature of the edit is recorded either in the file itself or in a "sidecar .xmp" file (which is little more than a text file). Make another change to the image and a new set of instructions is recorded. If you delete the .xmp file and...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Read more about Robin Nichols